The invention of Peter : apostolic discourse and papal authority in late antiquity / George E. Demacopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demacopoulos, George E.

Series:

Divinations

Divinations : rereading late ancient religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popes--Primacy--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Popes.

Petrine office--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Petrine office.

Petrine office--History of doctrines.

Popes--Primacy--History of doctrines.

Popes--Primacy.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Summary:

In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip explores late ancient Christian reflections on the meaning and value of illness in ascetic practice. Overturning earlier assumptions about early Christian theology of illness, he reveals illness to be a persistent and controversial concern in early Christian debates about sanctity and asceticism. Available as hardcover, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E. 2: Making a "Catholic" Self, 388-401 C.E. Jason David BeDuhn, Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversio owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we probably remember it to be. Rather, in the Confessions Augustine depicts conversion as a lifelong process, a series of self-discoveries and self-departures. In his first volume, Jason David BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. The second volume demonstrates that as Augustine defined and became a "Catholic" self, he also intently engaged with his former Manichaean faith in works up to and including the Confessions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Petrine Legends, External Recognition, and the Cult of Peter in Rome 13

Chapter 2 The Many Faces of Leo's Peter 39

Chapter 3 Gelasius' Domestic Problems and International Posture 73

Chapter 4 The Petrine Discourse in Theoderic's Italy and Justinian's Empire 102

Chapter 5 Restraint and Desperation in Gregory the Great's Petrine Appeal 134.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812245172

0812245172

OCLC:

813691481